Improvement in combination-chairs



0. J. HIGGINS. Combination Chair.

No. 214.297. Patented April 15, 1879.

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CHARLES J. HIGGINS, OF HALLOVVELL, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINATION-CHAIRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214,297, dated April15, 1879; application filed February 5, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. HIGGINS, of Hallowell, county ofKennebec, State of Maine, have invented an Improvement inCombination-Chairs, of which the following description, in connectionwith the accompanyin g drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved socalled combination-chair, itbeing adapted by changes of position to serve as a high chair, as a lowchair, as a chariot-chair, as a reclining-chair or roller-chair, and asa reclining rocking-chair or crib.

The base of the chair when in use for these various objects is at timeson one end, and at other times on each of its two sides, and the baseand main seat part may be used together, or each independently, ashereinafter described.

Figure 1 represents my apparatus arranged for a chariot-chair. Fig. 2represents the base inverted and the upper part removed, the base beingthen adapted to be used as a reclining or crib chair, and the upper partthereof as a childs rocker; and Fig. 3 represents the base and removableseat part in position for a high chair.

The upper or main seat part of my improved combination-chair is composedof a seat, a, havin g suitable back and arms, and, as shown in thisinstance of my invention, I have depended from the seat rocker-supportsb, which, when the main seat part is detached from the base, enables thesaid main seat part to be employed as a childs rocking-chair; but ifdesired 1 may employ other forms of supportinglegs, and if the said seatpart is not to be so used independently then the supports may bedispensed with.

This seat part will have afoot-rest. I have shown such foot-rest at c,and have supported it by means of springs 01, so that it may yieldsomewhat to the action of the foot. The extent of this motion of thefoot-rest may be limited by means of rods or cords placed within thesprings.

The seat a is provided with spring-catches e, which, when the seat partis in position, (shown in Figs. 1 or 3,) will engage parts of the baseand hold the seat part firmly in position.

The base is shown as composed of standards f g, connected together at ornear the middle of their length.

The standard f has at its ends rollers or wheels h, which, when the baseis as in Fig. 1, serves as a rolling base for the seat part, or if theseat part is removed serves as a rolling reclining-chair, the childbeing then seated upon a seat made part of the said base.

In this instance of my invention the said seat and the back for it isshown as composed of cloth 2 extended from cross-bars c j.

The standard 9 has connected with it. rockers k, and when the saidrockers are upon the floor the base may be used as a recliningrocking-chair or crib.

The seat for the rocker is herein shown as composed of cloth 3 3,connected with crossbars I m.

To convert this reclining rocker into a crib it is only necessary todrop the cloth of the back from the cross-bar m. It is obvious I may dothis by unbuttoning the cloth from the cross-bar m, or by making ahinge-joint in the standard f, as in dotted lines at n, Fig. 2.

The seat part may be provided in any usual way with a table.

Instead of the rollers I may employ feet, it it is not desired to rollthe chair.

It is obvious the shape of the standards and their mode of connectionmay be varied without departing from my invention.

I claim- The convertible high, low, chariot, reclining, and rockingchair, composed of the chair portion a b and the base fg, having rockersk, rollers h, and seats 2 3, the said chair portion and base eachcomplete in itself, and adapted for both separate and combined uses,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES J. HIGGINS.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, N. E. WHITNEY.

